Improvement in street anid station-indicators for railroad cars



N.P ETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

` i To all whom 'it they concertar` l in whichparticipa.

"fnowann L.4 DEANQOF Nnwnnne, onto.

` Letters` Patent No. 104,563, dated June 21, 1870.

" IMPROVEMENT-IN. STREET STATION-INDICATORS FOR.I RAILROAD CARS.

The Schedule referred. to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same. V

`Be itknown that 1, EDWARD IJ. DEAN, of Newburg, in the countyof Cuyahoga and State of Ohio,

' `have invented a new and improved Street and Station'- ,i Indicator for Railway Cars and I do hereby declare that the followingfis a full,

` Iclear, and exact description `of `the same, reference `being had to the accompanymg drawing making a part of this specification,

Figure'l is a longitudinalvertical section through a ,car, showingthe attachment oi' the index-operating i lwircs to the moving apparatus, and Y Figure 2` is an ele vation of the index-operating mechanism, `the dial-platebeing removed.

Thisinvention has for its` object to cause `the index-finger of. a `dial-plate aiixed to the inside of a `street-canto travel over its surface, and point out the .names of streets and stations as they are successively. reached.` v i j,

The invention `consistsinattaching directly to the il car-axle the lever that lreceives the impact of the ange,which projects `upward from the track, which impact the lever transmits to the index-operating mechanism. i i i l A is a car.

a, one of its axles.

b, a lever, `whoseffulcrum isithe axle a, which lever j is held vertical by` a spring arm at itsV top, connecting i il it with the `bottom of the essary` motion. i

car, and allowing itI the nec- The lower end ofthe lever b1 extends down ward far enough to strike the flange `@which projects upward `fronltthe track at any point of which indication should bema'dc on the dial.` j f i Wh'en the` lever and flange collide, thchformer is thrown backwardnntilitds drawn over the latter, whenits spring throws itonce more into the vertical position. j '1 v l 'lhe upper arm 'ofthe levcnfis joined, by means of the .connectingrodd with the arm e, that projects downwasd fromthe center ofthe rocking lever h, pivoted, at its middle, to one side of the car-body, below l the floor,and-directlyunderneath the dial.

'r When the upperarm of the `lever bis thrown forward, the right end ofthe llever h is drawn downward, y `anddraws toward the rightpbyimeans ofthe connect-v l ing-rod l,the upper extremityof. the bar k, which is pivoted, at its lower extremity, to the shaft of the toothed wheel l, which shaft bears the ndex-nger rigidly aiiixed to its outcr'end. Y

rEllis movement of the bar 7.: causes one of its pawls m to slip over one of the teeth ofthe wheel l.

The restoration of the lever b to the vertical position, in the manner before explained, causes the other connectingrod n to draw the bar k back to its original station, during which movement the pawl m rotates the wheel l, and causes the index to movev overE the dial, and point to the name of the appropriate sta'- tion.

The bar It isprovided with asecond pawl, o, similar in all respects to thcpawl nl, which, however, is only used when the other is inoperative, and which has to be held out of the way when the tion.

A lever,va',`pivioted, at4 its lowerend, to the har It, between the two pawls, and provided Ywith two arms,

tt, projecting from itat right angles, on being thrown `to the right of the pin s on the bar It, removes, by means of its bar t, the pawl o from contact with the wheel l. i

vShould it he desired .to run the car back on the i same track without turning itend for end, the lever r is moved'to the left of the pins, and then, by means l of its arm t, the level' fr removes the pawl m from conl tact with the wheel l, and allows the pawl o to act upon it.

The pawl omoves the wheel inthe opposite direction from the pawlv my, and causes the index to reverse its `fiiotion `as required by the running back of the car. .1 f

The reason why the lever b is attached directly to the axle a is that it may move over the track steadily as the axle does, and so be always in position'to strike theilanges, and not move up and down uncvenly, as it would if fastened to the car-oor.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and 'desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The lever b, attached directly to the 'car-axle, and combined, with the index-operating mechanism, 'sub'- `stantially as and for the purpose described.

l 'EDWARD' L. DEAN. "Witnesses:

Giras. A. IETTIT, T. P. SIMPSON.

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